José Rivera, the Obie Award-winning playwright and Academy Award nominee (The Motorcycle Diaries) will move from the page to the director’s chair on May 29 and 30, when The New School for Drama hosts a workshop production of his play Brainpeople. This special collaboration will run for three performances and features Drama alumni and current [...]
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Drama directing faculty member Suli Holum was recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Chimera, a piece she co-created with fellow directing faculty member Deborah Stein. The show premiered at HERE as part of the 2012 Under the Radar Festival. Chimera tells the story of a woman who discovers she [...]
Two members of the New School community have been nominated for Broadway’s highest honor, the Tony Award. Playwriting faculty member Jon Robin Baitz‘s Other Desert Cities has been nominated for one of Broadway’s highest honor, the Tony Award for Best Play. The play had its premiere at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater where it played to [...]
As the semester progresses, the first-ever New Challenge continues—and the competition is heating up: the judging panel has selected 16 semi-finalists from the more than 60 submissions received earlier this year. Open to students across all divisions and disciplines, the New Challenge will award funding to social entrepreneurship ideas that innovatively address civic issues on [...]
On March 12, The New School for Drama held its annual NetWorks reunion event at Dublin 6 in New York City. More than 25 alumni attended, and each graduating class was represented. The event allowed Drama alumni to develop new professional and working relationships within the industry. Over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, attendees connected with [...]
The New School for Drama presents the freshest writing talent in theater at the New Voices Playwrights Festival, which features five original plays performed in repertory March 28-31 and April 4-7 at The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor. Showcasing the work of this year’s graduating playwriting MFAs, the festival also [...]
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